Deposition; ; Descent from the Cross;

One of the most influential paintings produced during the Northern Renaissance, Deposition demonstrates the early style of Rogier van der Weyden, a leading artist during the mid-fifteenth century. Rogier (as scholars identify him) was commissioned by the crossbowmen’s guild in Louvain to create a triptych (three-paneled painting) altarpiece for the Church of Notre Dame hors-les-Murs and Deposition was originally the central panel. The painting depicts Jesus Christ’s body being taken down from the cross while his mother, friends and followers lament his death, a subject that gained great popula... Mehr ...